Op-Ed Contributor - Our Home-Grown Melamine Problem - NYTimes.com

It will be a relief if our new President can manage to re-orient the FDA and other regulatory agencies back to science and the public's interest -- not just the interests of shareholders.

For all the outrage about Chinese melamine, what American consumers and government agencies have studiously failed to scrutinize is how much melamine has pervaded our own food system. In casting stones, we've forgotten that our own house has more than its share of exposed glass.